ETF comparison
ICLN vs ROBO
Both Thematic.
iShares Global Clean Energy ETF · Robo Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ICLN and ROBO would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
ICLN is 57 bps cheaper than ROBO. On a $100,000 position that's about $570/yr more in fees for ROBO.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with ICLN vs ROBO.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in ICLN
104 total- FIRST SOLAR, INC. 8.06%
- China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd. 7.83%
- NEXTPOWER INC. 7.01%
- BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION 6.93%
- ENPHASE ENERGY, INC. 4.59%
- VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S 3.63%
- EQUATORIAL S.A. 3.30%
- EDP, S.A. 2.70%
- PLUG POWER INC. 2.67%
- Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated 2.52%
Only in ROBO
80 total- AMBARELLA, INC. 2.09%
- ILLUMINA, INC. 1.92%
- ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC. 1.90%
- FANUC CORPORATION 1.74%
- GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft 1.72%
- Yokogawa Electric Corporation 1.71%
- TERADYNE, INC. 1.67%
- EMERSON ELECTRIC CO. 1.67%
- JBT MAREL CORPORATION 1.63%
- NOVANTA INC. 1.62%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.